Blackpool - Season 1 - Episode 5

Name: Episode 5
Released: 2004-12-09
Rating: 3.5

2004-12-09 • 60 min • ⭐ 7/10

Natalie provides Ripley with a watertight alibi for the night of the murder. Carlisle knows she's lying, but there's nothing he can do about it. Meanwhile, Ripley's business is falling down around his ears. Marr, Ripley's friend and trusted financial advisor, reveals his true colours with a mean trick he's had up his sleeves. Ripley isn't prepared to go down easily, but events spiral even further out of control as he struggles to hang on to what little he has left. Ripley's friend Terry also confesses that he's been informing the police about Ripley's activities on the night of the murder. Carlisle temporarily succeeds in winning back Natalie, but she gets cold feet once again and goes to his hotel to end the affair. Carlisle claims that he never loved her, he just wanted to get to Ripley. Meanwhile, Ripley susses that Carlisle and Natalie have been having an affair...

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About Blackpool

Title: Blackpool

First Air Date: 2004-11-11

Last Air Date: 2004-12-16

Status: Ended

Rating: 7/10 (from 24 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 2

Total Episodes: 6

Network: BBC One

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Production Companies: Unknown

Synopsis

Ripley Holden is a small-time entrepreneur desperate to make it big with his new state-of-the-art amusement arcade. The opening extravaganza is overshadowed by the find of a dead body on the premises. DI Carlisle is called in and quickly finds he has more on his mind than murder, when he falls in love with Ripley's long-suffering wife.